Schmidt v. Herrmann’s Empirical Analysis
614 F.2d 1221 · 1980
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Pelletier v. Zweifel (1991), Cafasso v. General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc. (2011)
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Blitz v. Boog · Flaksa v. Little River Marine Construction Co. · Colorado v. Franc · Industrial Building Materials, Inc. v. Interchemical Corp. · Anderson v. Air West, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'definite and firm conviction that the court below committed a clear error of judgment in the conclusion it reached upon a weighing of the relevant factors.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A pleading which sets forth a claim for relief, whether an original claim, counterclaim, cross-claim, or a third party claim, shall contain (1) a short and plain statement of the grounds upon which the court's jurisdiction depends, unless the court already has jurisdiction and the claim needs no new grounds of jurisdiction to support it; (2) a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief; and (3) a demand for judgment for the relief to which he deems himself entitled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the final analysis, the court of appeals will overturn a district court's dismissal pursuant to Rule 41(b) only where it is apparent that the court abused its discretion. [citations]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.